Wave motor



June 10, 1924. 1,497,205

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CHARLIE BOOSINGER, OF SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA.

WAVE MOTOR.

Application filed June 14, 1922. Serial No. 568,201.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES F. BOOSIN- ona, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of San Luis Obis 0, county of San Luis Obispo, and State California, have invented a new and useful Wave Motor, of which the following is a s cification.

The present invention re ates to improvements in wave motors and its particular object is to provide a motor of the character described in which a plurality of floats rising and falling with the waves co-operate in im arting uni-directional rotary motion to a shaft, which latter thus receives a large number of impulses all of which 0 crate in the same direction. A further ob ect of the invention is to render this rotary motion as uniform as possible by arranging a series of floats in such a manner that they cover awful] wave length or a plurality of wave lengths, so that t e shaft will receive impulses all the time, there being no intermission as there would be if only one float were employed. A further object of the invention is to provide a: practical, operative device adapted to work 24 hours a day and-inde endent of the rise and fall of the 'w'ater us to ebb and flow. A further object of the invention is to provide a device that is extremely simple in char= acter, self-adjusting and requiring little or no attention.

With these objects in view I have illustrated thepreferred form of my invention in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a. side elevation of my device; Figure 2 a cross section through the same along line 2-2 of Figure 1; Figure 3.

an enlarged detail plan view of an operative portion of my device; Figure 4 a vertical cross section along line 4-4 of Figure 3; Figure 5 a cross section along line 5-5 of Figure 4; Figure 6 a sectional detail view of a universal joint; Figures 7 and 8 detail views illustrating the transmission of power from vertic lly moving racks to a rotary shaft. Whi e I have shown only the preferred form of the invention I wish to have it understood that various chan es or modiffizations may be made within t e scope of t e claims hereto attached without departin from the spirit of the invention.

wo rows of piers (1) are firmly anchored in the bottom of the sea in any suitable manner, preferably in the arrangement shown in igure 2, although a difl'erent arrangement might be selected in the application of the principles of the invention. The piers are so arranged that each four of them form a square adapted to enga e the four flattened corners (2) of a float (3 which latter is of square cross-section and frictionally engages the piers through the rollers 1) so as to be capable of vertical sliding motion. A plurality of floats are alined in this manner and the best results will be obtained when a line of floats is co-extensiye with the ordinary wave length or with a plurality of wave lengths.

The piers are connected along their top ends by means of strong metal beams (6) which bind the whole structure into' one firm unit. Su erimposed on these beams and secured to t e piers by strong bolts are transverse metal frames (7) made of I-beums or channel irons, one frame resting above each pair of piers. These frames are substantially rectangular in form and are reinforced by proper braces (8). They sup ort, in suitable bearings (9), two longitudmal shafts (11), each dis osed above a row of piers aiid extending t rou bout the length of the device. These sha ts constitute the main drive shafts of my invention and power may be taken from the same in any suitable manner not shown in the drawing, the main object of the present invention being to transform the lifting power of the waves in uniform rotary motion of the shafts.

From each corner of the floats rise two I'm-h beams (12) and (13) arranged in such a manner as to pass one of the shafts on opposite sides of the same.- Each rack beam is provided with two universal joints 14) shown in detail in Figure 6 and comprising a ball (16) and a socket (17), the latter comprising a body member (18) and a head (19) adapted to be secured thereto by the bolts (21). The joints allow of rocking motion of the float and permit the upper.

' spending rack beams the shaft. Since the pawl and ratchet arrangements for each pair of rack beams are pointed in opposite directions as shown in igures 7 and 8, one rack beamis operative when the float rises and idles when the float 'fall while the other beam is o rative when the oat falls and idles when t e float rises, both rack beams turning the shaft in the same direction.

The operation of the device will be readily understood from the foregoin description. Figure 1 shows the era arrangement of the floats as exten in throughout one wave length. Assumin t at the wave moves from left to right, the floats 31, 32,

-33 and 34 will rise andi confining ourselves to one of the shafts, wi l tend to rotate the shaft, through the rack beams (12) for instance, in one direction, say clockwise. They will not all act simultaneously, but in impulses, each impulse overlapping the precedmg and the sueceedin one; The corre- 13) of these floats will be inoperative due to the fact that their respective pawl and ratchet arrangements are inoperative. The floats (35), (3 6), (37

and (38) are falling at thesame time and v the rack beams may be made may be lines of floats and shafts. Since the power developed by the falling float must be substantially equal to'that of the rising float the impulses caused by the falling float must be substantially equal to those caused by the rising floats. The rise and fall of the water due to the tides does not interfere with the operativeness of my device, since ong enough to operatively engage the gear wheels at high as well as at low water level.

I claim:

1. In a wave motor, two pa'rallel rows of piers arranged to confine a'- float between each four piers with freedom of vertical motion, with tapered tongues of the piers extending into spaces formed between cut-oil corners of the floats, a main horizontal shaft supported over the tongues of each row of piers, two shafts rising from each corner of each float so as to straddle the main shaft and means for transmitting rotary motion to the main shaft from one float shaft as the float rises and from the other float shaft as the float falls.

2. In a wave motor, a float presentihgdiiers in intersecting relation with the conrenting faces, two shafts rising from each corner of the float so as to straddle the main shaft and means for transmitting rotary motion to the main shaft from one of the float shafts as the float rises and from the other float shaft as the float falls.

-CHARLES F. soosmonn'.

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